The pillars of a gin shop [and six other captioned and uncaptioned designs] / [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- The pillars of a gin shop [and six other captioned and uncaptioned designs] / [graphic]
- Creator
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, printmaker
- Contributor
- Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, artist, publisher.
- Published / Created
- [1833]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- George Cruikshank
- Abstract
-
"Various humorous images comprising (clock-wise from top left); a lady in a ballgown; a portrait head of a gentleman in a very high collar and top hat holding a whip; a very thin and tall man, seated, dandling his child on his knee (lettered above "Daddy Longlegs"); a self-portrait of George Cruikshank; a study of the head of a bearded man; a seated girl, combing her hair; a man with wrinkled breeches, standing with his back to the viewer; a tall man with a pronounced hook nose (possibly the Duke of Wellington); an armoured man on horseback, turning in the saddle to his left, his sword in his hand; a country squire with his glass in his hand; a head of a man smoking a pipe; a portrait head of a bald man with an angry expression; a rural landscape; a fat sailor in naval uniform dancing a hornpipe (lettered below "Fat Jack"); a girl in an apron and bonnet; a young gentleman seated on a coach, the 'Dovor Express', and holding the reins and a whip (lettered below "Mr. Tommy Twiddlewhip playing at being a Coachman"); and a child seated on a chair and pretending to drive a team of horses; the large central image, a ragged family leaning against two Corinthian columns, the mother and father drunk, the little girl crying and the little boy with a sad expression; a large anthropomorphic copper still with an unpleasant expression on its face and a devil observing beyond (lettered below image "The Pillars of a Gin Shop."); illustration to the second volume of Cruikshank's "My Sketchbook" (1834)"--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title from text beneath central prominent design.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Children and childcare. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xxii.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 18.3 x 26.7 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 833.00.00.12
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1833
Etchings England London 1833
Book illustrations - Material
- etching ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Alcoholic beverages
Children - Subjects
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Alcoholic beverages
Children
England > 1833
England > London > 1833
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9804896
- Object ID (OID)
- 10971332